Plans for a new oil well in Glentworth have been approved, despite environmental protesters saying “it makes no sense”.IGas Energy PLC claims it will help meet the UK’s need for oil, although locals feared the impact of so many HGVs on the village.
“There is no support whatsoever for the development in this village, the responses to the plans on the county council’s planning website are clear regardless of any claims that have been made to the contrary,” he said. If both are successful, it would lead to the extension of the well and the installation of the pipeline before drilling took place across a further three phases.
He said he would rather have oil which was locally sourced than “being shipped from the far side of the world”.
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